Life Imitates Kayfabe

9 Oct

October 9, 2013

Remember Rick “The Model” Martell from the WWF?

Yes, he was a wrestling model whose big gimmick was that he came to the ring with an old-fashioned bug sprayer full of “Arrogance,” his perfume. He’d spray the ring with it, he’d spray the fans with it, and of course- hold on to your hats, you won’t believe this! – he would spray it right in his opponent’s face to get the win.

So there I was in Men’s Wearhouse last week and what did I see?

arrogant

The Model? Nowhere to be found.

The Inappropriate Gorilla

8 Oct

October 8, 2013

Do you like curry?
I do not.

I think it stinks. Put it in my meal and you can keep it. Don’t want it. Won’t touch it.
And that’s a problem.

My girlfriend is a great cook. She can cook anything and it all tastes great. But the trouble is, she likes curry.
Loves it.

I do not.

So it can be a little bit of a problem when she cooks for me because she is likely to put curry in anything, including pancakes.

But that is my cross to bear in life.

HOWEVER, there is one circumstance where I can get firmly behind curry, Where I say “bring it on” and while I won’t touch that crap, I’ll gladly back the fact that it is there.

gorilla

This is a shop in Manhattan and no, I’ve never been there. Don’t want to go in there either. But I love gorillas and stick a gorilla on a sign and you’ve got a store that I’m all for. Won’t try the food, but I love the sign. I have no idea what a gorilla has to do with curry, but as I always say, everything is better with gorillas.

That seems to me to be the most inappropriate use of a gorilla that I can imagine.

BTW- not only is that Kodak film’s colors, it looks like they used the same font as well.